Category: Friends and Kin

Good and Plenty, the Devil's candy.
Posted in Back in My Day Friends and Kin

The Good and Plenty incident

Many years ago, I had something happen that would henceforth be referred to as “The G&P Incident”.A good friend at work had overcome years of…

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Maybe I should have said “tiger”? Pictionary fun

We have been sort of confined to quarters by bad weather, so to keep from going all REDRUM! we have been playing Pictionary. Now, every…

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1950's couple standing in yard
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Tune the UHF channel for your vicinity

Teresa’s maternal grandparents living in Renton, Washington, in 1957. I would bet that this was taken late on a Saturday afternoon, before some kind of…

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Bee Barf Honey
Posted in Flotsam Friends and Kin

My sister’s bees barf tasty honey.

My sister and her husband live in Oregon and raise bees. Not sure about their marketing strategy. I do want to buy a t-shirt, so…

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Teresa washing her face 2013
Posted in Friends and Kin Grey Gardens West

A cautionary tale about shelves over toilets

We make mistakes, we are human. For example, the mustard colored paint in the tiny upstairs bathroom. That’s nothing. See that shelf behind Teresa’s head?…

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SNAPSHOT: Daphne on the phone already

I guess we took Daphne in for a photo shoot at Sears or whatever in maybe 1991? Her typical sunny attitude shows through!

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1960's mother reading to the young uns.
Posted in Back in My Day Friends and Kin

Reading is FUNdamental. Also, the TV was broken.

Here’s my mother reading to my sister Evelyn, who is obviously not paying attention. These days, Evelyn routinely beats me at Scrabble, so I guess some of it penetrated her tiny brain.

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Comic welcome mat postcard
Posted in Friends and Kin The postcards

Well that was interesting.

Got my 2nd vaccine last week, Teresa has hers too. We are looking forward to playing cards and bitching about stuff with our friends, like…

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Top of the morning St Paddy's dog
Posted in Back in My Day Friends and Kin

Top of the morning to ya!

Our old dog Scruffy was always keen to celebrate any holiday, because he thought he was people. So there was the wearing of the green…

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Coffee with Helen Wyatt
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Coffee with Helen

Coffee with Helen on YouTube. I can barely watch her because she makes me miss my mom so bad. Also check out her special pizza…

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